{"id":37286,"date":"2019-10-14T14:14:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T18:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37286"},"modified":"2019-10-14T14:14:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T18:14:31","slug":"if-you-havent-become-somewhat-skeptical-about-news-photos-youre-not-paying-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37286","title":{"rendered":"If You Haven’t Become Somewhat Skeptical About News Photos, You’re Not Paying Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Examiner<\/a> posted an article today about some recent film aired by ABC News that was described as ‘slaughter in Syria.’ There was only one problem. It seems that the film footage was actually from a nighttime machine gun demonstration at the Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky. We’ve seen this sort of propaganda before, but it usually comes from middle eastern news sources (as in this instance<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The article in The Washington Examiner reports:<\/p>\n

After seeing a comment from Wojciech Pawelczyk,<\/a> I began making some calls. As of this writing, it appears ABC indeed aired footage recorded in the Kentucky and claimed it was from Syria. The network has since pulled the video.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve taken down video that aired on World News Tonight Sunday<\/i> and Good Morning America<\/i> this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy,” a network representative told the Washington Examiner. “<\/i>ABC News regrets the error.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

A representative for the gun range also told the Washington Examiner <\/i>that they are still investigating ABC\u2019s reporting, adding further that the images aired by the network “look to be” from their Kentucky property.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“As of right now,” the representative added, “it seems to be our footage.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note that the sequence and shape of explosions is identical in the following ABC and Kentucky videos, as are some of the features of the terrain amid the explosions. But we might actually be dealing with two different videos of the same Kentucky live-fire event from slightly different angles. In the independent film of the live-fire event in Kentucky, you can clearly see taller objects in the foreground that seem to appear as silhouettes in the ABC footage:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Earlier, on Sunday<\/a>, ABC News anchor Tom Llamas also aired the allegedly shocking footage, claiming it showed a fierce Turkish attack on Kurd civilians.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation rapidly spiraling out of control in northern Syria. One week since President Trump ordered U.S. forces out of that region, effectively abandoning America\u2019s allies in the fight against [the Islamic State],\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Llamas then described the video as it aired on-screen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis video right here appearing to show Turkey\u2019s military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town. The Kurds, who fought alongside the U.S. against ISIS. Now, horrific reports of atrocities committed by Turkish-backed fighters on those very allies,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The intro to the show he anchored,ABC World News Tonight, <\/i>also claimed of the footage: \u201cA border town, bombarded by Turkey\u2019s military!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The footage would indeed be stunning were if actually from northern Syria. It would be horrific were it actually to show a Turkish assault on Kurd civilians. But it does not show that. The footage, which appears to be from 2017, shows American gun enthusiasts putting on a terrific pyrotechnic show for an audience in Kentucky. In fact, the Machine Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show, which involves the very popular night shoot<\/a>, is a bi-annual event at the Kentucky gun range. People love the show. They love it so much, in fact, that they record it and post footage of it to social media. …<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is astonishing that ABC appears to have aired Kentucky gun range footage during prime-time news segments on the clashes in Syria and that no one at the network \u2014 not a producer, not a fact-checker, and certainly not an on-air personality \u2014 caught the errors before they aired.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the mainstream media has a narrative, they will use whatever resources they can to promote that narrative. Don’t believe anything you currently see in the mainstream media. They are not interested in reporting accurate news–they are interested in remaking America into something that would negatively impact the lives of everyday Americans.<\/p>\n

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